Our Team

Finished my bachelor’s degree at the University of Southern Maine in Social Work.  Earned a Master Degree at Boston University in clinical social work and a Doctorate Degree at the University of Tennessee in nuro-clinical social work.

My work experience includes government positions as casework for the State of Maine as a child protection worker for 5 years, school systems both public and private as an outpatient clinician and director of social services for over ten years at Hebron Academy, and director of programs in residential settings.  The majority of my experience is in community based mental health services;  working  as a outpatient clinician, crisis worker and advancing to supervisor of case management and crisis services for children and adults with Tri-County Mental Health and Community Concepts.

In 2011 I went out on my own as a private outpatient mental health therapist in 2011 servicing the community of Norway and surrounding townships.  I work with all age groups as specializing in a small community is difficult. My specialty if I were to choose is working with adults that have unresolved childhood trauma and working with young children providing play therapy ( ages 4 to 6 years old).  In my therapy practice I work with children, adolescents, and adults of all ages with a variety of issues from grief and loss, alcoholism/drug usage both active and affected by, divorce, trauma-based issues, affected by others, child abuse and neglect, sexual abuse trauma. (I do not work with sexual offenders).

I work from a relationship basis so if for some reason I am not a good fit I will make effort to find someone who is a good fit. I love the work that I do. 

In 2017 I began the process of operating under agency status as A Life’s Compass PLLC (ALC) a Mental Health outpatient therapy and Case Management Agency.  ALC works with the State of Maine Licensing Broad to be operating as an Outpatient/Case Management Mental Health Agency.  We accept mainecare, private insurance and self-pay.